![]() ![]() She becomes the archetype of the free-thinking American woman grappling with herself and her sexuality in a cold, patriarchal society" (The Guardian). ![]() Hawthorne's achievement is to make her passion noble, her defiance heartbreaking and her frailty inspiring. "The most memorable and original aspect of The Scarlet Letter lies in Hawthorne's portrait of Hester Prynne, who has been described as "the first true heroine of American fiction", a woman whose experience evokes the biblical fate of Eve. ![]() From the library of bibliophile and Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser. An exceptional example from The Bennett Book Studios, a fine book bindery in New York City established in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett. Housed in a linen slip case and chemise box. Quarto, bound in full morocco by Bennett, elaborate gilt tooling to the spine, with scarletÂleather onlay of theÂletter A on the front panel, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated with 31 mounted color plates by Hugh Thomson. First edition thus of Hawthorneâ s masterpiece. ![]()
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